ARVADA — It’s rumored to be haunted, it caught fire in 1929 and it was saved from a wrecking ball in 1997.

Now the oldest Victorian house in Arvada, which is owned by the Yak and Yeti Restaurant and Brewpub, will be celebrating its 150th birthday in classic Colorado style — with an American-style pale ale brewed just for the occasion.

“I used a lot of Centennial and Falconer’s Flight hops, and the real special kick is the 44 pounds of jaggery sugar,” said Yak and Yeti head brewer Adam Draeger. “It’s a sugar from India and it tastes like dried papaya … it’s very tropical.”

The beer is appropriately dubbed 150 Pale Ale, and visitors can get a free commemorative glass along with a free pour once the festivities kick off at 4 p.m. July 1, said Yak and Yeti general manager Kal Pant.

“Indian food and beer go together perfectly, and we just wanted to have a party and enjoy the day,” Pant said.

The property at 7803 Ralston Road, known locally as the VanVoorhis house, started out as a modest one-story frame house in 1864. Built by Arvada’s second postmaster, Eli Allen, the property was described as a “lovely home” where Allen raised horses and ran the post office.

“The whole area was all open farmland,” said local historian Nancy Young. “There was maybe 100 settlers living on 30 homesteads during that time period.”

In 1894, Elias VanVoorhis came to Colorado for health reasons and purchased the property for himself and his young bride, Cora.

They added on to the house and invited their extended family to live with them, including Cora’s sister, mother and uncle. .

The 1929 fire — caused by baby mice playing with wooden matches, according to the Arvada fire marshal — saw Cora saving her two grandkids by wrapping them in a wet blanket and running down the stairs.

Cora died in 1940 from injuries she received during a fall down the stairs. The house stayed in the family for a few more decades before becoming abandoned and falling into disrepair.

It was set to be demolished in the 1990s when a group led by British expat Geoffrey Bruce purchased the property and began a three-year project to convert the space into the Cheshire Cat Brewpub.

“Americans failed me for having the world’s worst beers,” Bruce said. “I had no choice but to start brewing my own.”

With an engineering background, Bruce worked with architects to keep the original lines and aesthetics of the house, which is now three stories. The Yak and Yeti purchased the property six years ago.

Many of the original features remain, including the cellar, wood floors and rooms where generations of the VanVoorhis’ lived, worked, played and grew up.

As for the ghosts, it’s rumored Cora and her Uncle Ned have been sighted over the years, but visitors need not worry — they’re said to be friendly.

The owners of Boulder’s Sterling University Peaks apartments, who this summer were cited for illegally subdividing 92 bedrooms in the complex, have reached an agreement to settle the case for $410,000, the city announced Thursday.